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Conor McGregor made a successful comeback in 2016 making him on of the highest paid UFC fighters. In the press conference following UFC 205 he said he is closing out 2016 close to $40 million dollars in earnings.

Conor will continue to be a money making fighter in 2017 and other revenue streams are on sight like boxing. He has already gotten his boxing license (Conor get boxing licsene) and while a Mayweather vs McGregor is not likely to happen we are not shutting it off anytime soon.

One sure thing to increase his earnings is appreaing on “Game of Thrones”.

McGregor, 28, will make an appearance in one of the two remaining seasons of the hit HBO show, according to Northern Ireland newspaper The Sunday Life.

Conor McGregor is expected to appear in one of the two remaining seasons of HBO as the Game of Thrones director is a huge UFC fan and he believe Conor is a perfect fit for the show.

Conor is a also a huge fan of Game of Thrones and has sparring history with the “The Mountain” Icelandic strongman Hafþór Júlíus “Thor” Björnsson.

In case you missed that sparring from almost two years ago, here it is:

Following the Game of Thrones appearance floodgates for commercials and more offerings might come Conor’s way. As long as his acting doesn’t interfere and get him beaten up in his next UFC fights, he should be on his way to more earnings in 2017.

Miesha Tate who is a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate has earlier voiced out that the UFC needs to create more weight divisions for the women fighters. UFC only had two women’s divisions, the strawweight (115 pounds) and the bantamweight divisions (135 pounds) which meant Miesha Tate nude on weigh-ins is no longer gonna happen.

Miesha Tate had to cut weight and use extreme measures to make it to 135 pounds and fighters like her could go to 145 and worry about fighting instead of cutting weight.

Also Cris Cyborg Justino called for a featherweight (145 pounds) and flyweight (125 pounds) division.

Miesha Tate thought these changes can take a while but UFC recently announced the creation of a Featherweight division featuring Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie on Feb. 11.

Now that a Featherweight title has been created is Miesha Tate going to Unretire? Preparing for a fight while actively cutting weight can take a toll on a fighter, and with this Miesha can just focus on fighting.

The creation of the Featherweight division also means smaller fighting pool and Miesha could start reigning or making money in that division. UFC president Dana White also believe that there are not a lot of high level women at the featherweight division (145 pounds).

We certainly want to see the sexy Miesha Tate even if it means we are not going to see her weigh-in nude.

Ronda Rousey is being eyed by WWE to join them specially because she is a lifelong wrestling fan and have generated a lot of interest when she made an appearance together with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson at WrestleMania 31.

WWE chief brand officer Stephanie McMahon has publicly announced that she wants Ronda Rousey in the wrestling ring. At WrestleMania 31 Stephanie McMahon was at odds with Rousey as Rowdy called Stephanie the “Billion Dollar Princess” and driven out of the ring with her husband Paul “Triple H” Levesque.

Ronda has a lot of drawing power with the fans and WWE would benefit a lot from Ronda crossing over to their sports entertainment business.

Earlier this month McMahon once toyed the interest of WWE fans during the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit at Laguna Niguel, Calif., by saying that she wants to hire Rousey for WWE.

Rousey is scheduled to fight Amanda Nunes at UFC 207 and it is possible that Ronda is nearing the end of the road for her UFC career. She has indicated that a few more fights and she will do full-time acting. Being a big wrestling fan it is highly possible to see her at WWE in 2017 during WrestleMania 33 in Orlando, Florida on April 2.

Ronda Rousey appeared on Conan O’Brien show on TBS today. It has been almost 2 years since Ronda Rousey last appeared on O’Brien’s show on February 2015 to promote UFC 184. She is now on the show to promote her #fearthereturn UFC 207 against Amanda Nunes.

Among other things Ronda Rousey revealed to Conan O’Brien that she and Vin Diesel are World of Warcraft buddies. They became close while filming Fast and Furious 7 on breaks both she and Vin Diesel would sneak off to plan their next blodd elf raiding party.

Ronda Rousey seems to be getting back to her old confident self, in her latest FB posting showing an image of herself hitting a punch bag and putting the hashtag #FearTheReturn. A slight callout to Amanda Nunes as Ronda also places the hashtag #RouseyVsNunes. Let us wait and see how Nunes responds to this, maybe on social media or on the Octagon.

It has been a long time now and 12 UFC fights have already gone by but it still reported that Ronda Rousey is still mad at Joe Rogan after her loss to Holly Holm in UFC 193.

This is according to Joey Diaz, friend of Joe Rogan, podcast with Dean Delray —

I went to this place and bumped into this guy — I’ve met this guy a few times, he’s a big time MMA guy — and he pulled me over to say how mad Ronda Rousey was at Joe Rogan. Not only Joe Rogan, but anybody in that time period that she got knocked out, anybody who said anything of a negative air… she’s just furious, and she has a long list, and she’s very angry.

Do you believe that Ronda is still mad at Joe Rogan? Some comments from Reddit believe so:

[–]KayosssTeam – I don’t give a fuck! 813 points 2 days ago
Joe Rogan you just made the LIST!

[–]danny-flip 147 points 2 days ago
“You know what happens when you criticize Ronda Rousey… huh?… You know what happens when you say something negative… huh?… Do you?… … … YOU JUST MADE LIST!”

[–]HungrylikeTheFonz 20 points 2 days ago
I can see Joe getting Nancy Kerrigan’d in the near future.
By Edmond. Or Travis.

Joe Rogan praised Ronda Rousey after the loss calling her a “once in a lifetime athelete” however following comment were critical of Ronda:

It becomes this Hollywood trap. And Ronda was — and still is — a giant superstar. She’s this undefeated women’s fighter. She’s crushing all the competition, she looks like a destroyer and then the f****** traps…That’s something that happens when someone gets so absorbed with this idea that they’re special.

So absorbed with this idea — when you’re on top, you think you are the f****** person, you are the woman, you’re the man, you’re the s***. No one’s gonna f*** with you, I’m just going to run through this b****! And then you get cracked.

The only way for Ronda to get back at her detractors is to win UFC 207, who cares about Joe Rogan?